I’m currently in the middle of migrating a project from Pivotal Tracker to Trello, and couldn’t find any easy method of importing the data, so I spent this morning putting together a gem to do exactly that.

My old recursive-design.com site has served me well for a couple of years of contracting and consulting, but having jumped headfirst into a startup, my focus is now on reducing my workload rather than increasing it :)

One of my favourite services at the moment is Transloadit, who provide an image processing API that works a treat on top of platforms like Heroku, where there are strict request timeout limits that make large uploads difficult. They handle auto-orientation of images automagically by default, and normally I’m not even aware of it happening during testing since my camera and OSX also handle auto-orientation transparently.

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time playing with ruby-processing (and processing in general) recently. It’s also been my first exposure to JRuby which has been a bit of an eye-opener, in terms of the sheer number of Java libraries that it makes available in Ruby.

All the fun stuff in processing seems to be OpenGL-related, and after a lot of research the easiest way to dig in ended up being the GLGraphics Java library, which was made specifically for use in processing.

The last year has been a bit of a whirlwind, and saw Emi and I leave Tokyo, travel Asia, Russia and Europe for a couple of months, spend some time back in Australia catching up with family, and eventually take up an offer we couldn’t refuse to co-found a startup in Christchurch, New Zealand.